Originally Posted by
BertMacklinFBI
No soup for you. I agree. Ridiculous that they can all of a sudden impose this. The union is doing nothing about it. Submitted a dart, no actionable response. Just another roll over.
Originally Posted by
BertMacklinFBI
If I need to pick up 30 hours of flying to cover a conflict drop, convince me why I should do it at straight time. You could really twist the screws to em and just conflict and get no pay! That’ll teach em!
For example, I can pick the trip up 8 days in advance. Or I can wait one day and get 150% and fly less days. No. I don’t think you’re a sucker. I was being jovial.
The problem, in my opinion, lies with people flying past min days off or calling/willing to extend forever. I think working less at premium is more trouble for the company as you are giving them less of your time. Yes. You help them in the short term. But it’s just kicking the can down the road. Draft/VLT is available nearly all the time (on some fleets).
Complain on one end and justify on another.
Using your logic, it is fine to extend a 5 day trip into 13 days and get paid 200% for most of the trip. You could be working less days and getting paid more. It only is helping the company in the short term. Any other rules of what is ok and not?
Bottom line is the contract allows pilots to fly draft. It is an individual decision until we are released to self help. If you feel the need to justify your actions, maybe you should rethink those actions.